similar to: Roaming Profiles Refuse to Load on MS Windows Clients

I have noticed while testing my Samba 3.0.2a primary and backup domain controllers with Windows XP clients, that when I attempt to login to the Samba PDC, the XP client will sometimes randomly choose the backup domain controller. I only want the client to join the backup domain controller when the PDC is offline. I am not experiencing any random network outages or DNS failures so I am bewildered

hi list, i am having problems with the smbldap-populate script from idealx. we are using samba3 server with openldap. we dont want roaming profiles for our users, so in smb.conf i set: logon path = logon drive = H #just for homedirs not for profile, we dont want roaming profileslogon home = in the configuration file for the smbldap-tools (smbldap_conf.pm) it says: # Just comment this if you

Hello everyone. Well, I have a very interesting thing happening with my Samba PDC when I try and disable roaming profiles. As it is now, im running Samba as a PDC with LDAP on the backend. This is what i've done to disable roaming profiles: In smb.conf, i've set the following two entries to blank: logon home = logon path = Now, i've used the idealx scripts to add users, groups as

How to set up roaming profiles that samba doesn't download whole profiles, only necessary files ntuser.ini ntuser.dat eg. end rest of registry settings? I would like to setup profiles running (downloading) fast from server when clients login. Clients XP PRO SP3. Samba ver. 3.0.33-3.29.el5_5 Which file form samba registry should I use to force using roaming profiles :

Hi all! I have a problem and I can't seem to figure out what is causing it. Because of this I think it's important to tell the whole story... One of my clients has a small office network, where these used to be a Samba 2.x.x server using smbpasswd acting as PDC. A few month ago I installed a new server with samba 3.0.9 (now upgraded to 3.0.10) and OpenLDAP for authentication (as

I have samba 3 configured and running fine as a PDC with LDAP as the back end user database. I have most users using roaming profiles but there are a few I would like to be able to only have local profiles. Is it possible to configure samba to use both types of profile rather than one or the other. I have the profile path set on each user account in LDAP as the field

[samba v3.0.24, gentoo w/ kernel 2.6.15] I'm hoping someone has some insight into the following problem that I've recently encountered: Basically, winxp seems to be creating roaming profiles that are incompatible with another winxp client. I've got two sets of winxp clients, which I'll call 'new' and 'old'. Profiles created (and perfectly usable) by the old

for my organaization i configured a Samba PDC, Samba-LDAP, with the following configuration my server is running fedora core 5, all my clients are windows XP, my problem is when i login to the domain through windows xp client each time the profile is refreshing, i want to save the profile in server and retrive it when i login again. please healp me out to get out of this problem, Regards,

Ever since I upgraded Samba from 3.0.x to 3.4.x, and reconfigured it to support Windows 7 clients, I am having issues with roaming profiles on my Windows XP clients. All the machines have been rejoined to the domain, domain authentication appears to be working fine, the home drive is mounted ok, and the profile information is even read, but never updated upon logout. A user with no profile will

Hi, i've finally have my LDAP backend working for authentication for my DC. Logon scripts are executed, user is authenticated, but my roaming profiles are not found. here is what i have in my config files: smb.conf [global] printing = bsd netbios name = PDC server string = PDC (%h) workgroup = workgroup interfaces = eth0,lo security = user encrypt passwords =

Hello everyone! I'm facing a big problem with the samba server I just set up: System: FreeBSD 5.4 Samba ver: 3.0.20 (previuosly 3.0.12) Client(s): Windows XP Professional I configured the server to make use of roaming profiles. I was able to copy local profiles to the server, to login and voila - got my desktop. Also after creating a new user, the new profile gets copied to the server,

A collegue of mine, in a different office branch of my organization, suffer continuous troubles on roaming profiles, troubles thta in my site, with rather similar setup, does not happens. Trouble last some month, but 'till now we have thinked was the network, and we had worked checking cables, switches, configurations. But trouble continues... and seems frequent but not with a specific

I had the same problem. We used samba 3.0.14 and upgraded to 3.0.20 After that profile were not loaded anymore. Th problen you are discribing looks like Windows is loading the local copy of your profile and after you deleted it it tries to load the profile from samba and fails. I found out that we had problems with "profile acls = Yes" wich was needed by the earlier samba releases.

Hi list At the momtent I use samba as a pdc with tdbsam as passwd backend. I plan to use ldap and I already tried it out. Unfortunately I didn't find a way to disable roaming profiles. I used the smbldap tools. First there is the question if I should use add user script = /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -m "%u" with the -a (is a Windows User) option. If I don't, then windows account

Hi all I have a samba 3.0.21c with OpenLDAP 2.3.19 as Primary Domain Controller. I would like to enable Roaming Profiles per user basis , not for all users. below is my smb.conf , [global] workgroup = mydomain.com <http://msdpl.com/> netbios name = mydomain passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://mydomain.com server string = Domain Controller hosts allow = 192.168.128. 192.168.129.

Hi, I know this question is FAQ, I set up samba PDF before and still run well, and now I need to create another PDC for another branch office. I have search the MAILLIST and google, but I still can't figure out what happened and how to fix it. I can join into samba PDC but while I sign on Windows Xp and Vista, it will show such like as following "Your user profile was not loaded

Hi All, I have recently successfully configured Samba 3.3.15 and OpenLDAP as my offices PDC. I would like to disable the roaming profiles capability but it appears that no matter what I said, it is being ignored by Samba. First is my relevant snippet for the Logon Path and Logon Home being empty as described in the documentation. Then, following that, is my entire smb.conf -- please let me

Hi All, I've happily had Samba (3.0.24) operating as DC for my Win2k/XP network for years. I've just upgraded to Vista and eveything seems to be working fine (shares, domain logons) apart from roaming profiles. Just after logging on, the following error appears in a bubble from the system tray: "Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary

Hi After changing from samba 2.2.7 to 3.0.rc2 I can't get roaming profiles work. Clients Are W2K and XP. I've also switched from smbpasswd backend to ldap. Logon path is only set in smb.conf, not in ldap. Storing of profiles is working but it takes very long. I've tried logon path = \\wilma2\profile\Win2K and \\wilma2\profile. But the clients are always storing profile in

I have a PDC named GOMER with IP 10.8.3.37 and a BDC named BLDG1 with IP 10.8.3.231, both in the domain ADAMSTEST. I have a user testuser who logged in successfully to GOMER and has a roaming profile in /var/lib/samba/profiles/testuser. So I changed the TCP/IP settings of the windows XP computer testuser uses from the WINS server of 10.8.3.37 to 10.8.3.231 so it would use BLDG1 for